NASA Tests Amazing Bailout Rocket Which Will Never be Used

I had such high hopes for the Orion program. Back to the Moon, and maybe even to Mars… It could have worked. The Register reports:

NASA has spectacularly and successfully tested the launch abort system – the ejector seat, as it were – for its new Orion crew capsule. There’s just one problem: according to President Obama’s stated plans, Orion will never be launched with crew aboard.